From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-26T05:39:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ping.rb

Pat Eyler wrote:
> My implementation of Net::Ping is attached.  Criticism is welcome.

It would be good to have all the pings in one ruby basket.

Some minor fixes:

--- ping-orig.rb        2006-02-25 12:35:14.000000000 -0800
+++ ping.rb     2006-02-25 12:35:30.000000000 -0800
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@

     def ping(host)
       begin
-        timeout(@timeout) do
+        Timeout.timeout(@timeout) do
           if @protocol == 'tcp'
             s = TCPSocket.new(host, @port)
             s.close
           elsif @protocol == 'udp'
             s = UDPSocket.new
-            s.bind( "", 23000 )
+#            s.bind( "", 23000 ) ## not needed, may cause conflict
             s.send( "Hello\n", 0, host, @port )
             msg = s.recvfrom( 100, 0 )
             if msg[0] != "Hello\n"


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